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Or there is a submitting patches section:
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#submitting.patches
St.Ack
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Stack <stack@duboce.net> wrote:
> Thanks for doing the fixup "Iron Hand". +1 on these rules for a branch or
> for any branch (We'll have to do the same for for trunk when it becomes
> 0.96 branch). Should we add something here:
> http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.tests Or to the community
> section: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#community ? Or to the
> developer section?
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> St.Ack
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> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:57 AM, lars hofhansl <lhofhansl@yahoo.com>wrote:
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>> During the past few days I spend some time to bring the 0.94 test back
>> into shape.
>>
>> GC issues, bad backports, hanging tests, memory issues, you name it.
>> I do not want to ever have to do that again.
>>
>> The good news is: The 0.94 tests are back in shape now. Yeah!
>>
>> If you commit a patch it is your responsibility to make sure it passes
>> the test suite.
>> Either the tests should be fixed in a reasonable amount of time or the
>> commit should be reverted.
>> This is mainly for committers, contributors should also watch the test
>> runs for their patches.
>> No excuses. The tests are passing now.
>> I do not care whether a test passes locally, or whether it fails rarely,
>> or whether some tests failed previously, or whatever.
>>
>> Please, consider this a condition for me to continue as release manager
>> for 0.94.
>> (This is only for the 0.94 tests. I cannot speak for HadoopQA, or the
>> regular trunk test suite, although eventually I assume we want similar
>> guidelines there)
>>
>> I increased the retention time for past builds. I will find you :)
>> I will publicly shame you. I will retroactively -1 the change and revert
>> it, and then shame you again. :)
>>
>> Lastly, this is a function of the large amount of contributed patches. So
>> it is a good problem to have.
>> HBase it an actively maintained project and we certainly want to keep it
>> this way, just with an acknoledgement that keeping the test suite passing
>> is important.
>>
>> Thanks and Merry Christmas (to whoever celebrates that).
>>
>> -- Lars
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